GABA plays a vital role in controlling the involuntary tics associated with Tourette Syndrome.
According to researchers, a brain area dedicated to reading skills has connections for the ability before children learn to read.
People with hyperphantasia, the ability to visualize vividly, have stronger connections between their visual brain network and decision-making networks. By contrast, those with aphantasia, an inability to visualize, have weaker connections between the brain regions.
Researchers have identified functional connectivity problems in brain regions associated with visual processing and attention in Parkinson's patients who experience visual hallucinations.
Using neuroimaging technology, researchers discover we not only see with our eyes, but with our brains too.
Researchers report facial recognition varies by where they appear in the visual field, and this variability is reduces through learning familiar faces via social interactions. The study reports repeated social interactions tune visual neurons in the face processing network to enable consistent and rapid rapid recognition of familiar faces.
A small, preliminary study helps researchers identify a region of the brain that specializes in the processing of auditory words.
Researchers report random neural connections do not suffice to explain the observed layout of the brain.
Contrary to common belief, lip reading can have a beneficial effect for those with cochlear implants. Researchers found the more a person's brain responded to lip reading, the more responsive the brain became to sound delivered through the implant.
Criticality in the brain was linked to inhibitory neurons imposing and organizing the computational dynamics.
While the visual cortex stores individual images in the brain, the hippocampus plays a significant role in the ability to recognize a sequence of images.
Caffeine improves visual acuity by increasing alertness and detection accuracy for moving objects, a new study reports.
